[MPlayer-users] BUG on BBC Stream http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/od/bbc2/bb/wm/video/newsnight_bb.asx

[Amin Azez]

Totem can play this stream fine, but
Mplayer version dev-CVS--4.0.2 (Ubuntu breezy badger)
when playing this stream with no arguments:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/od/bbc2/bb/wm/video/newsnight_bb.asx

fails with this output

(The significant bit is:
size_confirm mismatch!: 22611 28271
Error while parsing chunk header
failed, exiting)

$ mplayer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/od/bbc2/bb/wm/video/newsnight_bb.asx
MPlayer dev-CVS--4.0.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel  (Family: 6, Stepping: 8)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for Debian.


86 audio & 200 video codecs
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system
startup scripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/od/bbc2/bb/wm/video/newsnight_bb.asx.
STREAM_HTTP(1), URL:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/od/bbc2/bb/wm/video/newsnight_bb.asx
Resolving www.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.bbc.co.uk
Resolving www.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.bbc.co.uk[212.58.224.111]:80 ...
STREAM_ASF, URL:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/od/bbc2/bb/wm/video/newsnight_bb.asx
Resolving www.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.bbc.co.uk
Resolving www.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.bbc.co.uk[212.58.224.111]:80 ...
size_confirm mismatch!: 22611 28271
Error while parsing chunk header
failed, exiting
STREAM_HTTP(2), URL:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/od/bbc2/bb/wm/video/newsnight_bb.asx
Resolving www.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.bbc.co.uk
Resolving www.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.bbc.co.uk[212.58.224.111]:80 ...
Cache size set to 1024 KBytes
Cache fill:  0.03% (307 bytes)

Exiting... (End of file)